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President of the European Council,
His Excellency Mr Donald Tusk

Dear President Tusk,
Reference UK PM May’s letter of 29 March 2017 Paragraph 3, Line 1

"I am writing to give effect to the democratic decision of the people of the United Kingdom. I hereby notify the European Council in accordance with Article 50(2) ..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/29_03_17_article50.pdf
http://berklix.eu/brexit/29_03_17_article50_all_pages.txt

The UK's decision was Not democratic. The Brexit referendum was heavily gerrymandered.

3.7 million British abroad were dis-franchised, including 750,000+ British resident over 15 years in the EU.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-02-26/debates/16022623000001/OverseasVotersBill?highlight=15%20year%20rule#contribution-16022623000022
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-11-02/debates/5F35283E-BC76-4779-853D-BBA32FD7F43E/VotingRightsOverseasUKCitizens?highlight=vote

If millions of British citizens had not been dis-franchised, the referendum result might have been Remain, not Leave the EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum,_2016

Commonwealth & S. Irish citizens resident in the UK were also eligible to vote as usual.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/faq/voting-and-registration/who-is-eligible-to-vote-at-a-uk-general-election

Britain's democratic deficit includes:

Denying 3.7 million electors the right to vote.
Denying exising constituency representative MPs to the 3.7 million.
Denying any say to the 750K British in Europe most affected.
Denying constituency MPs to represent British Abroad (pro rata: 40 for Brits abroad globaly, of which 10 for Brits in EU)
Electorate misled by media campaigns sponsored by very wealthy Brexit sponsors desperate to leave the EU before EU's anti tax haven laws starts;
Foreign Minister Johnson's Brexit falsehood refuted by office of statistics ;
Prime Minister buying N Ireland MPs votes expensively for coalition.
parliaments select committee censoring Brexit DExEU Minister for hiding impact reports they stipulated be prepared ;

Gone is the cross party free votes of the advisory (not mandatory) referendum; since the Brexit margin of 1.27 million, (polls since ahve swung from Leave to Remain.) A kleptocracy of power obsessed leaders cow MPs with whip enforcers.

The UK Supreme Court accepted dis-franchising millions was legal, letting the UK government retain internationally sub-standard "democracy", Not compliant to civilised European standards.
Among all EU member states, only UK & Eire deny citizens votes abroad, (Germany may in circumstances after 25 years, Greece was taken to court & stopped), see report:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2014/542183/EPRS_IDA%282014%29542183_REV1_EN.pdf

Millions of dis-franchised British, abused by the UK, hope for help from the EU.

https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/what-are-human-rights/human-rights-act/article-3-first-protocol-right-free-elections

Re British citizens in EU, please inform the UK government : :

The UK government's claim of "democratic decision" is seen as false by the UK's own British citizens in Europe & others.
Real democracy is not denying 3.7 million British citizens the vote, especially denying any vote to 750,000+ British most affected, resident in the EU.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-11-02/debates/5F35283E-BC76-4779-853D-BBA32FD7F43E/VotingRightsOverseasUKCitizens?highlight=vote
UK's Brexit referendum is not seen as democratic until the UK holds a first Full Democratic Referendum, no longer excluding British residents in the EU that Brexit most heavily impacts.
A UK government claiming to speak on behalf of 750,000 British in the EU whose right to vote the UK deprived, whose right to constituency MPs it also deprived, is False:
The UK mugger cannot represent its British victims!
Only elected EU MEPs can represent us, not the abusive UK government.
The EU debates invoking Article 7 against Hungary & Poland, yet the EU does not remind the UK that Article 7.1 should protect another minority: British citizens resident in the EU abused by Britain.
British citizens in the EU dis-trust the UK government, & deprecate the bad deal UK offers EU citizens in the UK; Brits in the EU trust the EU to continue to provide us what we had before, plus ...

British citizens in the EU request the EU offer us direct EU citizenship, not just indirect via an EU host country where currently resident

British abroad are a minority abused by the UK Government. We ask the EU to protect us from the UK, before the UK government forces Brexit, which will also deprive us of our last democratic right, to vote for MEPs.
That the British government has long been against EU citizenship is of no further consequence, they wish to leave the EU, & cannot veto what the EU offers the day after UK leaves the EU, & UK already abuses British citizens abroad in the EU. We ask for EU citizenship to protect against a hostile abusive UK.

Yours Sincerely